Improved metallic hoop for barrels, casks



UNITED STATES` PATENT OFFICE.

WM. WILSON, JE., OE WIIMINGCIQN,v DELAWARE, AssIeNOE To HIMSELE AND cHAELEsGEEEN, 0E SAMEV PLAGE.l

|MPROVED METALLIOHOO'P FOR BARRELS, CAsKs, &,c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,457, dated June 27, 1865.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that LWILLIAM WILsON, Jr.,of Wilmington, New (Jastlecounty, State ofDeleware,4 have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Hoops for Barrels, Kegs, &c. 5 andi do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art t make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying draivings, forming. pui-t of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of a barrel provided with my improved hoops; Figs. 2 and 3, enlarged sections orportionsof a. hoop constructed according to my invention; Figs. 4 and 5, edge views of Figs. 2 and 3. V

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Metallic hoops for casks, kegs, barrels, 85o., have hitherto been made of beveled form in their transverse section, in order to conform to the bilge of the cask and t snugly thereto.

The object of my invention is to avoid this bevelin g ofthe hoop and at the same timeinsure the hoops being tted snugly'to the barrel or zigzagformcircumferentially,as shown in Figs 4 and 5, and admits of the hoops, when being drivenA on the Cask, barrel', or keg B, conforming to its bilge, as the hoops are allowed to expand at`. thcside or at one edge under the gradually-increasing diameter of the cask, barrel,"

or lkeg,as will be fully understood by referring i to Fig. 1,. These corrugated' hoops, in conse-4 quence of the stretchingr or yielding capacity givexithemlare not: liable to break in being driven on the cask, barrel, orkeg, and' when driven o n arenot lia-ble to get lloose--continl gencies which `frequently attend the ordinary smoothhoops. The crimping-br corrugating also renders the edges ofthe hoop betterable to resist the blows given `in driving them on A corrugated or crimped metallic hoop for casks, barrels, kegs, Sac., substantially as herein shown and described.

WM. WILSON, J'R..

Witnesses:

JOHN WOOD, ROBERT LEITHEAD. 

